18 September, 2024

Serie A: top rated players and referees 1994/95


6,80 Dejan Savićević (Milan)
6,58 Gianluca Vialli (Juventus)
6,57 Abedi Pelé (Torino)
6,51 Luca Marchegiani (Lazio)
6,48 Luigi Turci (Cremonese)
6,44 Paolo Maldini (Milan)
6,40 Gabriel Batistuta (Fiorentina)
6,38 Massimo Carrera (Juventus)
6,37 Aldair (Roma), Ruggiero Rizzitelli (Torino)

Referees:
6,65 Robert Boggi
6,56 Pierluigi Collina
6,34 Graziano Cesari

Ratings: La Stampa (Turin).

National teams' World Cup scores with key players

 


                                  w d l goals points avg score

Brazil with Pelé                 12 1 1 37-14 89,3%  2,64-1,00
Brazil with Garrincha            10 1 1 30-12 87,5%  2,50-1,00
West Germany with F. Beckenbauer 15 1 2 45-19 86,1%  2,37-1,00
France with Kylian Mbappé        11 2 1 30-14 85,7%  2,09-0,98
West Germany with Gerd Müller    11 0 2 31-14 84,6%  2,27-1,02
Brazil with Didi                 11 3 1 38-14 83,3%  2,48-0,91
Brazil with Ronaldo              15 1 3 42-16 81,6%  2,17-0,83
Germany with Philipp Lahm        15 2 3 45-13 80,0%  2,11-0,61
Brazil with Sócrates              7 2 1 25-7  80,0%  2,42-0,68
Holland with Arjen Robben        11 2 2 27-12 80,0%  1,69-0,75
Italy with Franco Baresi          7 2 1 11-3  80,0%  1,03-0,28
Brazil with Roberto Carlos       13 1 3 33-13 79,4%  1,90-0,75
Brazil with Zico                  9 4 1 31-9  78,6%  2,16-0,63
Holland with Johan Cruyff         5 1 1 15-3  78,6%  2,14-0,43
Italy with Roberto Baggio        10 5 1 23-10 78,1%  1,33-0,58
Germany with Miroslav Klose      17 3 4 52-15 77,1%  2,08-0,60
Brazil with Neymar                8 4 1 25-9  76,9%  1,83-0,66     
Spain with Xavi                  11 1 3 24-14 76,7%  1,53-0,89
Colombia with James Rodríguez     6 0 2 17-6  75,0%  2,12-0,75
Italy with Paolo Rossi            9 3 2 21-12 75,0%  1,50-0,86
France with Zinédine Zidane       7 4 1 19-6  75,0%  1,50-0,47
Italy with Alessandro Del Piero   7 4 1 17-6  75,0%  1,28-0,45
Italy with Paolo Maldini         14 6 3 31-15 73,9%  1,26-0,61
West Germany with Berti Vogts    12 4 3 40-19 73,7%  2,03-0,97
Belgium with Kevin De Bruyne      9 1 3 21-11 73,1%  1,58-0,82
Poland with Kazimierz Deyna       9 1 3 22-11 73,1%  1,69-0,85
Spain with Raúl                   7 2 2 27-13 72,7%  2,38-1,15
USSR with Albert Shesternev       6 1 2 15-6  72,2%  1,61-0,64
Germany with Lothar Matthäus     15 6 4 43-26 72,0%  1,68-1,01 
Uruguay with Luis Suárez         10 3 3 21-11 71,9%  1,29-0,67
West Germany with Uwe Seeler     13 4 4 45-26 71,4%  2,05-1,18
West Germany with Paul Breitner   9 2 3 25-14 71,4%  1,74-0,98
Argentina with Leo Messi         16 5 5 47-28 71,2%  1,68-1,00
France with Thierry Henry         9 6 2 22-8  70,6%  1,22-0,44
Poland with Grzegorz Lato        12 4 4 33-16 70,0%  1,65-0,80
Brazil with Jairzinho            10 2 4 29-17 68,8%  1,81-1,06
Italy with Francesco Totti        6 3 2 17-7  68,2%  1,42-0,58
Spain with Andrés Iniesta         8 3 3 18-15 67,9%  1,23-1,02
Holland with Ruud Krol            8 3 3 30-13 67,9%  2,09-0,91
Argentina with Diego Maradona    12 4 5 33-17 66,7%  1,52-0,78
Spain with Emilio Butragueño      5 2 2 17-8  66,7%  1,76-0,83
Sweden with "Nacka" Skoglund      5 2 2 18-18 66,7%  2,00-2,00
England with David Beckham        6 5 2 17-9  65,4%  1,24-0,66
England with Bobby Charlton/Moore 8 2 4 20-13 64,3%  1,36-0,89
England with Terry Butcher        6 6 2 18-8  64,3%  1,20-0,53
England with Harry Kane           6 2 3 25-11 63,6%  2,14-0,94
Italy with Andrea Pirlo           6 2 3 16-8  63,6%  1,37-0,69
Argentina with Daniel Passarella  7 1 4 23-11 62,5%  1,86-0,89
France with Jean Tigana           6 3 3 23-16 62,5%  1,77-1,23
Denmark with Michael Laudrup      5 1 3 19-13 61,1%  2,11-1,44
Poland with Zbigniew Boniek       7 5 4 18-16 59,4%  1,12-1,00
Croatia with Luka Modrić          7 8 4 30-14 57,9%  1,45-1,16
Argentina with Gabriel Batistuta  6 2 4 20-12 58,3%  1,62-0,97
England with Gary Lineker         5 4 3 15-9  58,3%  1,15-0,69
Belgium with Eric Gerets          6 2 4 18-16 58,3%  1,35-1,20
France with Michel Platini        6 4 4 26-18 57,1%  1,77-1,23
Hungary with Flórián Albert       4 0 3 16-10 57,1%  2,29-1,43
Hungary with József Bozsik        4 1 3 30-15 56,2%  3,75-1,88
Scotland with Kenny Dalglish      3 3 2 14-13 56,2%  1,75-1,62
West Germany with K-H Rummenigge  7 7 5 30-22 55,3%  1,53-1,12
Portugal with Cristiano Ronaldo   9 6 7 34-24 54,5%  1,52-1,07
Mexico with Cuauhtémoc Blanco     4 4 3 15-13 54,5%  1,36-1,18
Italy with Giacinto Facchetti     5 3 4 17-14 54,2%  1,38-1,14
Argentina with Mario Kempes       8 3 7 32-23 52,8%  1,75-1,25
Mexico with Rafa Márquez          8 4 7 21-20 52,6%  1,09-1,03
Holland with Ronald Koeman        3 3 3 11-10 50,0%  1,22-1,11
England with Wayne Rooney         3 5 3 10-11 50,0%  0,88-0,97
Portugal with Pepe                4 3 5 17-16 45,8%  1,42-1,33
Sweden with Tomas Brolin          3 3 4 18-14 45,0%  1,74-1,35
Cameroon with Roger Milla         3 3 4  9-19 45,0%  0,84-1,78
Peru with Teófilo Cubillas        4 3 6 18-27 42,3%  1,38-2,08
Ghana with Asamoah Gyan           3 3 5 11-15 40,9%  0,94-1,29
Sweden with Björn Nordqvist       3 2 5  9-10 40,0%  0,90-1,00
Sweden with Zlatan Ibrahimović    1 2 2  3-5  40,0%  0,60-1,00
Sweden with Ralf Edström          2 3 4  8-9  38,9%  0,89-1,00
Uruguay with Luis Cubilla         3 1 5  7-12 38,9%  0,75-1,29
Sweden with Bo Larsson            2 4 5  8-10 36,4%  0,73-0,91
Colombia with Carlos Valderrama   3 1 6  9-12 35,0%  0,84-1,12
Ivory Coast with Didier Drogba    2 1 5 10-12 31,2%  1,25-1,50
Chile with Elías Figueroa         0 3 6  6-15 16,7%  0,67-1,67

Brazil ratings in the 1962 World Cup

  

6,83 Mário Zagallo
6,67 Gilmar, Nílton Santos, Garrincha
6,33 Djalma Santos, Mauro Ramos, Zito
6,25 Amarildo
6,17 Zózimo
6,00 Vavá, Pelé
5,83 Didi

17 September, 2024

Goals scored in the last 365 days


54 goals: Viktor Gyökeres (Sporting CP) : 0,92 per game
51: Harry Kane (FC Bayern) : 0,86
50: Kylian Mbappé (PSG/Real Madrid) : 0,78
46: Erling Haaland (Man City) : 0,88
34: Luuk de Jong (PSV) : 0,76
32: Mo Salah (Liverpool) : 0,59
32: Romelu Lukaku (Napoli/Roma) : 0,55
31: Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona) : 0.52
30: Pierre-Émerick Aubameyang (Marseille) : 0,61

Top three assist providers per country in Premier League history


England : 297
103: Wayne Rooney, 102: Frank Lampard, 92: Steven Gerrard
 
Spain : 258
111: Cesc Fàbregas, 93: David Silva, 54: Juan Mata
 
Wales : 252
162: Ryan Giggs, 46: Aaron Ramsey, 44: Gary Speed
 
Netherlands : 205
94: Dennis Bergkamp, 58: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, 53: Robin van Persie

Belgium : 202
113: Kevin De Bruyne, 54: Eden Hazard, 35: Romelu Lukaku
 
France : 185
74: Thierry Henry, 56: Éric Cantona, 55: Steed Malbranque

Scotland : 139
59: Andy Robertson, 47: Gary McAllister, 33: James Morrison

Brazil : 135
50: Roberto Firmino, 45: Willian, 40: Gabriel Jesus

Portugal : 129
44: Bernardo Silva, 43: Nani, 42: Bruno Fernandes

Ireland : 129
55: Damien Duff, 37: Robbie Keane, Niall Quinn

Germany : 127
54: Mesut Özil, 45: Pascal Groß, 28: Leroy Sané
 
Italy : 126
49: Paolo Di Canio, 42: Gianfranco Zola, 35: Benito Carbone
 
Denmark : 123
76: Christian Eriksen, 25: Thomas Gravesen, 22: Claus Jensen
 
Côte d'Ivoire : 116
55: Didier Drogba, 32: Yaya Touré, 29: Wilfried Zaha
 
Argentina : 106
47: Sergio Agüero, 36: Carlos Tevez, 23: Érik Lamela
 
Norway : 106
39: Morten Gamst Pedersen, 37: Ole Gunnar Solskjær, 30: John Arne Riise

Northern Ireland : 100
49: Chris Brunt, 26: Michael Hughes, 25: Keith Gillespie
 
Iceland : 99
50: Gylfi Sigurdsson, 28: Eidur Gudjohnsen, 21: Jóhann Gudmundsson

Australia : 96
38: Harry Kewell, 30: Brett Emerton, 28: Mark Viduka
 
South Korea : 93
62: Son Heung-Min, 21: Park Ji-Sung, 10: Lee Chung-Yong

Egypt : 91
72: Mo Salah, 13: Ahmed El Mohamady, 6: Mido
 
Nigeria : 84
29: Alex Iwobi, Nwankwo Kanu, 26: Yakubu Ayegbeni

Algeria : 83
61: Riyad Mahrez, 16: Saïd Benrahma, 6: Ali Benarbia

Sweden : 74
29: Fredrik Ljungberg, 26: Sebastian Larsson, 19: Dejan Kulusevski

Czechia : 74
31: Patrik Berger, 24: Vladimir Šmicer, 19: Vladimír Coufal
 
Serbia : 70
27: Dusan Tadic, 23: Nemanja Matic, 20: Branislav Ivanovic, Aleksandar Kolarov
 
Uruguay : 59
24: Gustavo Poyet, 23: Luis Suárez, 12: Gastón Ramírez

Ghana : 49
25: Jordan Ayew, 14: Jeffrey Schlupp, 10: Michael Essien

Russia : 48
21: Andrei Kanchelskis, 20: Andrey Arshavin, 7: Roman Pavlyuchenko
 
Croatia : 43
15: Niko Kranjčar, Luka Modric, 13: Mateo Kovačić

USA : 37
19: Clint Dempsey, 9: Brian McBride, Christian Pulisic, Antonee Robinson

Greece : 34
14: José Holebas, 11: Stelios Giannakopoulos, 9: Kostas Tsimikas

Finland : 25
9: Jonatan Johansson, 8: Mikael Forssell, Sami Hyypiä

Ukraine : 25
11: Oleksandr Zinchenko, 7: Serhiy Rebrov, Andriy Shevchenko

Japan : 22
10: Kaoru Mitoma, 6: Junichi Inamoto, Shinji Kagawa

Poland : 19
8: Matty Cash, 7: Mateusz Klich, 4: Kamil Grosicki, Robert Warzycha

Hungary : 17
12: Zoltán Gera, 3: Dominik Szoboszlai, 2: Ákos Buzsáky

Czech Republic ratings in the Euro 2004

 


6,77 Milan Baroš
6,75 Marek Heinz
6,61 Karel Poborský, Pavel Nedvěd 
6,42 Petr Čech
6,31 Martin Jiránek
6,24 Tomáš Rosický
6,20 Marek Jankulovski
6,18 Jan Koller, David Rozehnal
6,15 René Bolf
6,12 Tomáš Ujfaluši
6,10 Vladimír Šmicer
6,07 Tomáš Galásek
5,76 Zdeněk Grygera

Milan ratings during the Ibrahimović era (2010-12 & 2019-22)

 


6,40 Zlatan Ibrahimović (5 seasons)
6,38 Thiago Silva (2)
6,29 Gianluigi Donnarumma (2)
6,26 Christian Abbiati (2)
6,20 Alessandro Nesta (2)
6,19 Simon Kjær (3)
6,18 Massimo Ambrosini, Kevin-Prince Boateng; Fikayo Tomori (2)
6,14 Rafael Leão, Theo Hernández (3), Hakan Çalhanoğlu (2)
6,12 Sandro Tonali (2)
6,10 Antonio Cassano, Ignazio Abate; Pierre Kalulu (2)
6,09 Ante Rebić (3)
6,08 Mark van Bommel (2)
6,05 Franck Kessié, Davide Calabria (3)
6,02 Ismaël Bennacer (3)
6,00 Alexis Saelemaekers (3), Daniele Bonera; Samu Castillejo (2)
5,98 Robinho; Brahim Díaz (2)
5,95 Alessio Romagnoli (3)
5,94 Gianluca Zambrotta (2)
5,92 Clarence Seedorf (2)
5,86 Rade Krunić (3), Luca Antonini (2)
5,82 Alexandre Pato (2)

16 September, 2024

Serie A 2011/12: top rated players

  

At least 20 appearances. Ratings: Gazzetta dello Sport.

6,64 Andrea Pirlo (Juventus)
6,59 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Milan)
6,49 Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), Sebastian Giovinco (Parma)
6,46 Antonio Di Natale (Udinese)
6,41 Massimiliano Benassi (Lecce)
6,40 Alessandro Diamanti (Bologna)
6,38 Jean-François Gillet (Bologna)
6,37 Francesco Totti (Roma)
6,35 Claudio Marchisio (Juventus)
6,34 Rodrigo Palacio (Genoa), Andrea Consigli (Atalanta)
6,33 Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli), Thiago Silva (Milan)
6,32 Wesley Sneijder (Inter)
6,30 Giampiero Pinzi (Udinese)
6,29 Pablo Barrientos (Catania)
6,28 Jonathan Biabiany (Parma), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), Sébastien Frey (Genoa)

Average ratings Chelsea 2011/12

 


6,60 Juan Mata 
6,46 Ramires 
6,43 John Terry 
6,41 Didier Drogba, Nicolas Anelka
6,36 Frank Lampard 
6,35 Petr Čech
6,34 Ashley Cole, Branislav Ivanović, Daniel Sturridge 
6,27 Gary Cahill 
6,25 Fernando Torres 
6,21 Oriol Romeu 
6,15 Michael Essien 
6,10 David Luíz 
6,02 Raul Meireles 
6,01 José Bosingwa 
5,99 Mikel John Obi
5,91 Ryan Bertrand 
5,90 Paulo Ferreira
5,88 Salomon Kalou
5,82 Romelu Lukaku 
5,77 Florent Malouda 

Italy ratings in the Euro 2000

 


7,07 Alessandro Nesta
6,79 Francesco Toldo
6,67 Demetrio Albertini
6,58 Francesco Totti
6,54 Fabio Cannavaro
6,46 Antonio Conte
6,23 Paolo Maldini 
6,22 Luigi Di Biagio
6,16 Filippo Inzaghi
6,14 Stefano Fiore
6,07 Alessandro Del Piero
6,01 Gianluca Pessotto
5,99 Mark Iuliano
5,54 Gianluca Zambrotta

The top 60 of the 1978 World Cup

 

Ranking based on list published by El Gráfico, Clarín y Goles (Argentina), Het Vrije Volk and Trouw (Netherlands), Corriere della Sera, Corriere dello Sport, La Stampa, Tuttosport, Secolo XIX and Guerin Sportivo (Italy), El País (Uruguay), Don Balón (Spain), Daily Telegraph, Daily Record and Daily Mail (UK), L'Équipe (France), A Bola (Portugal), Nürnberger Zeitung, Kicker, Sport-Informations-Dienst and ARD (West Germany), TRT (Turkey), Placar and Manchete (Brazil) and Soccer Express (USA).

1. Mario Kempes (Argentina)
2. Paolo Rossi (
Italy)
3. Ubaldo Fillol (
Argentina)
4. Ruud Krol (Netherlands)
5. Dirceu (Brazil)
6. Hans Krankl (
Austria)
7. Rob Rensenbrink (
Netherlands)
8. Leopoldo Luque (
Argentina)
9. Arie Haan (
Netherlands)
10. Teófilo Cubillas (Peru)
11. Ronnie Hellström (Sweden)
12. Daniel Passarella (
Argentina)
13. Marius Trésor (
France)
14. Roberto Bettega (
Italy)
15. Zbigniew Boniek (Poland)
16. Michel Platini (
France)
17. Antonio Cabrini (
Italy)
18. Johnny Rep (
Netherlands)
19. Toninho (
Brazil)
20. Johan Neeskens (
Netherlands)
21. Herbert Prohaska (
Austria), Grzegorz Lato (Poland)
23. Claudio Gentile (
Italy), Didier Six (France)
25. Óscar y Batista (
Brazil)
27. Leão (
Brazil)
28. Amaral (
Brazil), Ramón Quiroga (Peru)
30. Bruno Pezzey (
Austria), Franco Causio (Italy)
32. Nelinho (
Brazil)
33. Romeo Benetti (
Italy), Berti Vogts (West Germany)
35. Osvaldo Ardiles (
Argentina)
36. Marco Tardelli (
Italy)
37. Mauro Bellugi (
Italy)
38. Daniel Bertoni (
Argentina)
39. Henri Michel (France)
40. Kazimierz Deyna (Poland), René van de Kerkhof (
Netherlands)
42. Alberto Tarantini (Argentina)
43. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (
West Germany), Willy van de Kerkhof (Netherlands)
46. András Törőcsik (Hungary)
46. Ernie Brandts (
Netherlands), Juan José Muñante (Peru)
48. César Cueto (Peru), Américo Gallego (
Argentina)
50. Robert Sara (Austria), Gaetano Scirea (Italy)
52. Antoni Szymanowski (Poland), Juan Manuel Asensi (Spain)
53. Sepp Maier (West Germany), Rubén Toribio Díaz (Peru), Wim Jansen (
Netherlands)
56. Jorge Olguin (
Argentina), Témime Lahzami (Tunisia)
58. Heinz Flohe (
West Germany), Juan Carlos Oblitas (Peru), Adam Nawałka (Poland)

Valencia ratings in the 2000/01 Champions League

 


6,76 Roberto Ayala
6,61 Baraja
6,56 Cañizares
6,54 Mendieta
6,39 Mauricio Pellegrino
6,36 Vicente
6,29 Jocelyn Angloma
6,19 Miroslav Đukić, Pablo Aimar
6,18 Amedeo Carboni, Albelda
6,03 Luis Milla
6,01 Cristian "Kily" González
6,00 Didier Deschamps
5,91 Juan Sánchez
5,90 John Carew
5,87 Joachim Björklund
5,76 Diego Alonso
5,73 Angulo
5,54 Zlatko Zahovič

15 September, 2024

The 10 greatest Egypt players in football history


1. Mohamed Salah
2. Mohamed Aboutrika
3. Mahmoud "Bibo" El Khatib
4. Hossam Hassan
5. Essam El-Hadary
6. Ahmed Hassan
7. Wael Gomaa
8. Mohamed Barakat
9. Hassan El-Shazly
10. Ahmed Salem

2023/24 Champions League goalscorers per nationality


39 goals : Brazil, Spain
34 : France
29 : England
25 : Portugal
23 : Germany
15 : Argentina, Belgium
13 : Norway
12 : Netherlands
11 : Italy
10 : Denmark
 8 : Morocco
 7 : Ukraine
 6 : Switzerland
 5 : Poland, Nigeria
 4 : Austria, Sweden
 3 : Turkey, Serbia, DR Congo, Iran, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Croatia
 2 : USA, Suriname, Gambia, Canada, Chile, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ghana, Japan, 
Mexico, Israel, Uruguay, South Korea
 1 : Czechia, Paraguay, Cameroon, Venezuela, Kosovo, Albania, Scotland, 
Senegal, Mali, New Zealand, Algeria
 0 (among others) : Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Bosnia, 
Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Ireland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Georgia 

The 20 greatest Italian footballers of all time

 

1. Giuseppe Meazza [1910-79]
Inter - Milan - Juventus - Varese - Atalanta - Inter

2. Roberto Baggio [1967]
LR Vicenza - Fiorentina - Juventus - Milan - Bologna - Inter - Brescia

3. Paolo Maldini [1968]
Milan 

4. Gigi Buffon [1978]
Parma - Juventus - Paris-SG - Juventus

5. Franco Baresi [1960]
Milan 

6. Gianni Rivera [1943]
Alessandria - Milan 

7. Silvio Piola [1913-96]
Pro Vercelli - Lazio - Torino - Juventus - Novara

8. Dino Zoff [1942]
Udinese - Mantova - Napoli - Juventus

9. Valentino Mazzola [1919-49]
Tresoldi - Alfa Romeo - Venezia - Torino    

10. Andrea Pirlo [1979]
Brescia - Inter - Reggina - Brescia - Milan - Juventus - New York City

11. Giacinto Facchetti [1942-2006]
Inter

12. Gigi Riva [1944]
Legnano - Cagliari

13. Paolo Rossi [1956]
Como - LR Vicenza - Perugia - Juventus - Milan - Verona

14. Sandro Mazzola [1942]
Inter

15. Gaetano Scirea [1953-89]
Atalanta - Juventus

16. Francesco Totti [1976]
Roma

17. Giampiero Boniperti [1928]
Juventus

18. Fabio Cannavaro [1973]
Napoli - Parma - Inter - Juventus - Real Madrid - Juventus - Al-Ahli (Dubai)

19. Marco Tardelli [1954]
Pisa - Como - Juventus - Inter - St. Gallen

20. Alessandro Del Piero  [1974]
Padova - Juventus - Sydney FC - Delhi Dynamos